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2017 in the Ministry of I&B, Government of India and later, as Director of I.G.C.I.C. in Mauritius. Ms. Sahai had a
two-decade-long assignment in the cultural field with the National Film Development
Corporation (NFDC), Bombay, and with Government of India. She had joined NFDC in 1982
as Joint Director and was the third highest-ranked executive there. She handled the
promotion of Films and holding of Film Festivals at that post.
2011

Head of Production & Finance, Israel Film Fund, David Libkind was born in the year 1948. He worked as a
Producer, Assistant Director and Production Manager for 15 years until 1992 mainly in local and
international feature films. He is also serving as a member of the selection committee with specific
responsibility for the children section in the fund and is a member of Programming, Tel-Aviv annual
Children’s International Film Festival.

Born on 16th December, 1949 Shri Shiv Kumar is a native of Mumbai. He obtained his
Degree in Science and Diploma in Cinema in Direction from FTII, Pune. He has vast
experience of making films. He has made 15 corporate films, 20 ad films and 3 documentaries
for Doordarshan. His important films are ‘Clint’, ‘S.O.S’ and ‘Yatri Ekta Ki’. He has won
many awards as well.

Ratnottama Sengupta is a working journalist since August 1978, has worked with leading
newspaper groups likeThe Indian Express, Anand Bazar Patrika and The Times of India
where she is the Art Editor. She has curated more than 30 art exhibitions in Delhi, Mumbai,
Kolkata, Hyderabad and Bangalore. She has served in the International Jury for the SAFMA
Documentary Festival in Kathmandu, 2008. She has served in the Jury for the National
Awards (Feature Films) in 2001 and 2008. She has won the National Award for Writings on
Cinema also won the Bharat Nirman Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2008.

Born in the year 1949 in Thirthahalli, Shimoga district, Karnataka, Girish Kasaravalli is a
legendary movie director of international repute in Kannada. He is a well known name
among the directors of parallel cinema in India. Girish Kasaravalli has to his distinction four Golden Lotus
Awards for the eleven films he has directed so far. In his thirty years in this field, he has directed eleven films
and a teleserial.

Anna Niderhaus is a coordinator and manager of ‘The School Film Library project 70’ in
Polish Film Institute.Born in Warsaw, Poland, she graduated in Philosophy from The
University of Warsaw and Foreign Service Postgraduate Studies from Warsaw School of
Economics. She is continuing her PhD studies in philosophical aesthetics working on her
doctoral dissertation. In the years 2004-2006 she was a doctoral stipend holder of the
Japanese Government at The University of Tokyo. She has been working as a lecturer at The
University of Warsaw and collaboration with the Polish State Television.

2010

Vladislava Vojnovic was born on June 24, 1965, Bela Crkva, Vojvodina, Serbia (former

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